TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Jun 22, 2023

Two lawyers who used fake case citations generated by ChatGPT in a court filing were ordered in U.S District Court on Thursday to pay a $5,000 fine, reports Law.com. Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York also ordered Steven Schwartz of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman and his associate, Peter LoDuca, to send letters to their client, Roberto Mata, and to “the judges whose names were wrongfully invoked.” Schwartz said in a court filing in May he "greatly regrets" his reliance on the technology and was "unaware of the possibility that its contents could be false." Read more about the case in our previous reporting in TBA Today.